“I had Parish nail the door to the editing suite shut. I’ve been in there for…a while.”

Wow.

“What’s that fiery thing?”

In the sky?

“Yes.”

The sun.

“It’s amazing. Have people thought about worshipping it?”

Amir, how is the project coming?

“It keeps expanding.”

How so?

“We bought Yahoo.”

No, you didn’t.

“We did. Martin Scorsese took his eye off the ball after Vinyl got canceled, so I took the bull by the horns. And then I ground the horns up into traditional boner medicine.”

Oh, please don’t say’–

“We got Chinese funding.”

–you got Chinese funding. Dammit.

“They have so much cash it’s unbelievable. I brought a tall, blond guy in a suit to the meeting and they threw an extra hundred million in. The Grateful Dead Cinematic Universe is a go, and Bobby is now being played by Matt Damon.”